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That's correct, Pandora pays SoundExchange the statutory Interactive Streaming rate for the sound recording rights. SoundExchange in turn pays the appropriate rights holder. This might be an artist, directly, but often it's a record label. The labels don't like the revenue flowing through SoundExhange because the process is transparent to their artists. Which means they can't hide the money.

Pandora also pays the publishers for the performance right, separately from SoundExchange. This can be a fixed percentage of revenue. Societies like ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC generally administer the rights on behalf of the publishers.

Lastly, Pandora also pays Harry Fox Agency the statutory rate for the mechanical rights. HFA in turn pays the song writers.

Here's a good breakdown from an old and entertaining (view comments) TuneCore blog post: http://blog.tunecore.com/2012/03/the-additional-10-5-spotify...
Remember that the type of person who chooses to cheat on this type of assignment isn't exactly the sharpest crayon in the box.
Downloading it now :) Let us know if you're ever interested in making another game!
Mea culpa on that point (the image). I drew the wrong conclusions about its intent.
Yes. Especially when you factor in that github does a startlingly bad job of many basic things. Their ticketing system blows, for example -- you can't prioritize anything. Yet they have time to implement a CLI in the search bar...

I moved my personal private repos to BitBucket a long time ago, and haven't looked back.
hmm why not measure either tendon pressure or electrical impulses, of course it would need to be calibrated but it could be something the size of a watch instead of this.
I am french too, and books are not special kind of things different from games or me writing a report at work. They are all intellectual creations and this idea that somehow they should have a different status is an aberration. The Law should not be made for securing the rights of the merchants (in your case the bookshops) but for benefiting the greater good, i.e. widespread access to books for everyone. Having a fixed price goes against that, just like blocking the price of apartment rents, blocking the price of anything: it results in killing free markets and make things more expensive for everyone in the end.

The idea that culture is a different kind of business is born from Ancient Regime roots and it's about time these ideas die for good.
I haven't received an email and when I logged and checked the settings on my account I was already opted out.
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Well, true - but I don't think it's automatically invalid, therefore, to call him out on a double standard.

Let's face it, it's not going to change anything Siegler writes, nor likely to change opinions of his fans, but hell, he makes Gruber sound entirely objective.
AT&T's is much more invasive -- it is across all of their telecom platforms (DSL, TV, wireless, wifi, etc). They also will log location information for advertising: http://www.att.com/gen/privacy-policy?pid=2506

You can find more information from their AdWorks division: http://adworks.att.com/press.html

If they were to begin network sniffing, they could potentially build powerful user profiles that would be more valuable than Facebook's data (and truly "frictionless"). Your passive internet browsing would start influencing the commercials you see on TV.
I wanted to join the website but it forced me to log in and register with facebook. Which I loathe. Please put in another option.
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Cool. Let me know when it's up. ;) Will it have Atlassian related designs? Or Git/Hg/etc. related ones?
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"This summer, a California judge referred to Malibu's lawsuits in that state as "essentially an extortion scheme." Its exactly that, an extortion scheme. Its all about making a quick buck
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Determinant as volume of the transformation is cool, but I still don't "get" the determinant intuitively despite many years of math. In particular, why does the determinant work to solve linear equations (i.e. Cramer's rule)? And what's the motivation behind the formula for the determinant? (I realize these questions are a bit vague, but I'm hoping for a more intuitive answer than "that's just the way the math works out".)
And yet, they're storing the data in a security deposit box at a bank. :D
I said clearly why Pepper is not being adopted: it is a gigantic pile of API and implementation specified only by the C++ in chromium.org svn. Other browsers cannot port all that OS and WebKit glue code except at very high cost, direct and opportunity -- and even then on a bet that Pepper + NaCl wins, and again on a treadmill far behind Chrome.

Do you actually work on a browser codebase? If so, have you worked on competing browsers' codebases at all? Do you begin to see the problem? It's not quite Active X (open source is a small help), but it's on that slope and uphill only a bit.
This is both awesome and hilarious at the same time.

The whole point of bitcoin was to decouple currency from institutions (banks/governments etc.).

Instead they're right back where they started - only they've replaced gold/currency with bits that can be easily copied and stolen.

> "Oh but the government can't inflate us away!"

No, but they sure as hell can take away your "safety" deposit box.

> "But private property rights! Rule of law!"

Ever heard of the quote: "The guy with the gun make the rules"?

Rights don't exist separate from external force (aka the government, corporations, military, mafia etc.). Neither do laws. They are merely useful abstractions - but don't mistake map for territory.

Rights/laws are, quite simply, power group sanctioned specific use of deadly force for the benefit of one or another specific group (dictator/oligopoly/the people etc.).

They don't actually exist. Like money, land titles, contracts and bitcoins.

Actually, now that I come to think of it a lot of things in society don't actually exist - honour, respect, gods, free markets, meritocracy, a just world and oh so much more - but let's not get ahead of ourselves shall we.

I'm limiting myself to shattering only one illusion per day.
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I've been working with the beta this afternoon and its great. Its like MacGDBp but with a far better interface, less crashy, and with the ability to set breakpoints directly in your code with a code snippet (which is a huge timesaver for me).
I don't understand why you feel it necessary to make your points in such an inflammatory manner. Your arguments are well made, why do you feel the need to, for example, call someone 'astoundingly naive?' Being rude doesn't make your points more convincing and I would have hoped you were above that kind of thing. It's a pity because you have a huge amount to contribute.
I don't think it's worth it. Sometimes you have to cut your losses. I think it might be more productive to tell your network not to work with this company.

Doing the un-commits without consulting a lawyer can get you branded as a disgruntled employee and hurt future prospects in the best case scenario or get you sued in the worst.
Confucius say: Man who stand in front of car get tired. Man who stand behind car get exhausted.

I think we can all take some comfort in that, dude.
Neat, would like to see the code. If you're crawling sites yourself, that would be really interesting. Nice work.
If you have a copy of the email saying that you request payment as directed in contract and they refuse, erase your commit. I don't see why they should have your work. After you remove your code, just send a quick email saying, code still available upon reception of payment.
Love the idea. I'm not a game designer and I would only put myself in the hobbyist-gamer category, but I'm always so impressed by well-designed games.

I've played a ton of different games (board games, Magic, card games, RPGs, shooters, city-building, etc) and have even tried to create simple games in the past. What I found the most challenging and exciting was how to get all the different aspects of a game to come together. Top games today are probably made by specialists (I'm guessing) with someone who focuses on story or design or power balance or gameplay, etc. When I was a kid trying to put together all these things myself, I found it to be a really exciting and fun way to use my brain.

I guess I disagree that the reason kids (and kids at heart) should try building a game is to "build a product, make money and make people all around the world just a little bit happier." I think the reason they should build a game is to practice doing different types of critical thinking. But maybe it's hard to convince a kid to build a game with that kind of reason. :)
It's not hard: Chrome sandboxes NaCl'ed code and links it against a runtime, Pepper. That's a "VM" by any other name.
The port is not the point of the article. The fact that two fans (not developers of the game) used their knowledge to have it play at a higher resolution with other adjustable effects and break the framerate cap. The making it 'whole' speaks to PC gamers and what they expect out of games these days. To have a PC game locked at 720p @ 30fps is unacceptable to most PC gamers.
Glad it's working great for you :D that's all I wanted a stable easy to use PHP debugger ;)
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Centralization of control is often useful, but it should be optional. That's what Bitcoin gets us. It's simplistic to say we're "back where we started".
These're good too

http://linear.ups.edu/xml/latest/fcla-xml-latest.xml#fcla-xm...

http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/book.pdf

Also, the common 1st year texts (Anton, Lang, Hoffman/Kunze and Friedberg/insel/Spence) can be found easily for cheap, used. The old edition of Strang I used to have was good too, but some people react really strongly when you bring it up. There's lots of ways ot sequence LA and the needs of EE's, econometrics/game theory, prob/stats and applied mathies are different from physics/math majors. Look at ToC's and read the Holyoke prof's writeup:

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Linear-Algebra-Fourth-Gil...

(i think they're 1st year texts, my Dad's a physics prof and he started talking about determinants around 7th grade)
He wrote the Helicopter game when he was 16 years old and went through YC when he was 19 and you're criticizing him for making a clone of some other game? That's a hell of an achievement for anyone, let alone a teenager. And let's not forget that the best known game in the App Store, Angry Birds, is just an artillery game, which date back to the 70's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game
The instructions for Android seem needlessly complicated. Here's easier ones.

- install FBReader
- click on the EPUB link

Depending on whether you've done this before, you may get a dialog asking whether you want to make FBReader the default for epub.

What's more surprising is that neither Aldiko nor Kobo work this simply.
In chrome, go to settings > manage search engines. Add a new engine with the parameters:

name:wiki
keyword: w
URL: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=inurl:en.wikipedia %s&btnI=745

Once saved, in chrome's address bar type "w foo" and press enter and you'll go directly to the wikipedia article on foo

By routing through google, it's also much more tolerant of misspellings.
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Personally, I would hire a wandering homeless person before a microserf. At least there's a _chance_ that that the latter might not steal my lunch and knife me.

P.S. The "cool" projects at Microsoft are the ones that take place in the air-conditioned buildings. Not that you'll need it, since it's rainy and cold 24/7. Enjoy!
Thank you for this wonderful tip.
This is a presentation about hacking embedded systems, in particular the kind of stuff that runs the energy grid and a variety of critical infrastructure systems.
I'd love more coverage of my startup, Improvely, but I don't think I'm going to be throwing any parties on the other side of the country to attract the tech press. Personal e-mails to bloggers that covered similar companies didn't go anywhere either, so my 'launch' consisted of posting to my personal networks on FB/LinkedIn/Twitter/Yammer.

I would think snooping around their profiles for phone numbers and cold calling would be seen as creepy. Is that really something people do to bloggers/journalists they don't already know?
If a web designer adds this script to a non-HTTPS page, is that still the case?
I went out of my way to say that Haberman's position as I understood it -- not he himself -- was "astoundingly naive". This after he called me dishonest and speculated on motives. Are you using the same yardstick with me as with him? I think not.

Arguing about motives is a form of the _ad hominem_ fallacy, and I was avoiding it, in contrast to my fine counterpart. Yeesh!
I see, it's based off of:

http://github.com/chadrem/market_bot

Edit: I would like to point out that Google Play actually does have an API. It uses protocol buffers, if you check the Google Play apk.

http://github.com/kanzure/android-market-api-py
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Thanks for the reminder. Getting binary builds up is on our to-do list, so check back soon for those.

In the mean time, installing Go is pretty easy (you can use brew, or the official OSX package (assuming you are on OSX) http://golang.org/doc/install) and we've tried to leave clear steps for building NSQ here https://github.com/bitly/nsq/blob/master/INSTALLING.md (there really are very few dependencies other than go itself)
Rapidly growing startups have things that must get done, almost regardless the cost. Effectiveness reigns over efficiency. Often they are providing something new in the marketplace. Once competition really sets in, cost starts to matter more, and efficiency reigns over effectiveness. The rash early hiring settles down.
From what I hear it is almost entirely based on your team. If you are on a team that is working on a product that is forward facing or requires constant uptime (AWS, eCommerce platform.. etc) then you can expect to share responsibility for critical bugs or catastrophic failure. Kindle dev- not so much.

As far as I know, this isn't as bad as everyone tends to think. I kind of accept it along with the engineering culture- I prefer to be responsible for my projects rather than wait til 9am to put out fires. But I may be biased as a young, single, and so very poor student considering working for Amazon. If anyone has a better idea of the work/life balance at Amazon, I'd be grateful to hear more.

aaronbrethorst hit the nail on the head- there is a definite benefit to starting at a large software company. For me and my friends whom are looking for our first FTE positions, startups are daunting due to impostor syndrome. In my case, I don't know if I am skilled enough to jump right into a niche startup and be relied upon so heavily to ship. Amazon, Microsoft, etc provide a great place to learn from very intelligent people in the industry.
Control by definition is centralized to those with power.

What you mean is the delegation of control by those in power should occur - e.g. Let people make their own choices for houses, clothes, food, land, family and work to make our economies more efficient.

I agree.

But don't ever think that control can ever be decentralized.

It can only be delegated and it can be revoked at any time (see the Internet).
Good post. Item number 6. Build Relationships. Tim Ferriss wrote a blog post about how to build relationships with important people. It might complement it. Just check it out: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/12/10/how-to-get-g...
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It's so awesome that this is viable again. I started out by writing video games when I was 16, too. Back then I used BASIC & assembly language.

I didn't get $35K or groupies, though. I got about $200 a game from a disk-of-the-month club service for them, which was "real money" to a 16 year old farm boy in the 80s...
Oh god parsing HTML pages.

Why don't Google Play provide JSON API like iTunes do?

http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=343200656

and alternatively

http://itunes.apple.com/lookup?bundleId=com.clickgamer.Angry...

The second link can be used in client app to self-checking for new version updates.
> The one thing that rubbed me the wrong way is the "let" keyword.

Reminds me of 8-bit BASIC. Without the line numbers.
I saved it to my Dropbox, then I can open it on my iPad directly.
The plugin support hasn't bothered me yet, and it's almost surprising.

The amount of flash I use on a daily basis is so incredibly minimal these days. I've started using the built in plugin blocking with firefox. The only time I really turn it on is for Netflix and the occasional video that isn't part of the HTML5 beta on youtube is about it.

( not that any of this is an excuse to not fix the bug :P )
This is the right answer. "I don't see anything in the contract" is a terrible assumption for Internet comments, even if it frequently serves as par for the course.
256 characters, IIRC
Maybe they could add the feature to email to your kindle email which downloads automatically.
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To those who say that creating a JavaScript 2.0 would break compatibility... couldn't you have a .js2 extension and compile a .js as a fallback. The newer browser would ignore the fallback and use the js2. Thoughts??

Example:
<!-- JavaScript 2.0, unsupported browsers ignore -->
<script src="main.js2" fallback="main.js"></script>
<!-- Fallback compiled to current JavaScript -->
<script src="main.js"></script>
Works for me with Nightly 19 on OS X.
I have to disagree here. If Obj-C was my introduction to CS/coding as a teenager, I'd turn around, and run away as far as possible (like I did when I was introduced to C as a teenager). Now, Ruby (or Python, JS, etc.)...that's another story altogether...
Die, haters.
It's not official though, and the results you get back from it are incredibly varied.
Yes, the request is still encrypted. However, the original page will be subject to man in the middle attacks, which is why Stripe requires that payment pages using the Stripe Button or Stripe.js are served with SSL.
Solid tips.

Tip #7 - Be persistent. You might fail a lot doing this, but keep trying. You'll find your magic formula one day.
This is like Padmapper vs Craigslist all over again.
Besides the reply to your comment. Anecdotally I could tell you that some months ago, Chrome felt much faster at loading.

And I'm talking about barebones Chrome. Sometimes using extensions or activating/deactivating some flags can hinder/improve the performance.

The only thing that keeps me here, is the extensions not available on Safari (my other favorite webkit browser).

But overall it seems more slow on launch (even on clean install).
See my comment earlier. A couple of reasons including press, announcing our funding, and better SEO.
Isn't that like complaining about Apple selling the iPhone at over $100/ounce?

I don't contest that there are probably people who only need a remote git repo and nothing else. But those companies that would service them either compete on features or get pushed down to wholesale cloud storage prices, a place you don't want to be unless you're Amazon.
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> and the results you get back from it are incredibly varied.

Can you show me? I haven't noticed.
I called Verizon and they said this is a phishing scam... Has anyone else independently verified the original claim with Verizon, other than through their website/privacy TOS?
Usual sort of 'inside baseball' with bloggers getting upset about other bloggers' opinions. This applies to political pundits, sports pundits, gaming pundits, and, obviously, tech pundits.

These aren't the interesting thoughts you're looking for.
Huh... you are deeply wrong about Angry birds. You forget that they included physics in the game and that makes it a lot more elaborate that any of the artillery games or scorched tanks ever made before. It's not just about the angle and power, this time.
Huh. This is actually rather good for programming searches; surfaced some useful things I hadn't seen before. Bookmarked. Thanks!
Hey, thanks...

I believe - Anything can reach very high, granted it dosen't lose aim/target...
Javascript as a target is intrestingly beautiful, but this might fork up a way for yet another dart. Rust should remain, what its meant for....
Fair enough, I think you're right.
As a matter of fact you don't need socket API or webRTC or whatsoever, Chrome has established an XMPP and jingle p2p connection for sync bookmarks, etc. It's not open API for Javascript yet, but I defintely see the potential.
Nice landing page, but I don't see any details whatsoever about what the site is or how it works.
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"Relating to Bitbucket security, we take your source code security very seriously. Nearly all of the code on Bitbucket, is private. Via the web application, no Bitbucket staff members have access to your repositories, nor can they grant themselves access to your repositories even for support reasons.

At the datacenter, VPN access limited to a very small number of engineers on our team, and we store the repositories in a hashed directory structure that makes it difficult to identify repositories by username."

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/bitbucke...
Why make more iPhone games ? Honestly restricting yourself to using touch screen controls and making games for under-powered hardware is hardly gratifying - Make games for desktop, rather. There's so much more you can do visually and artistically speaking on a big screen with real controls. Plus, the iPhone market being flooded with games is hardly a good place to make your app shine. You will more likely be lost in the ever-growing ocean of crap.
One thing to always remember: reporters are people too, so treat them as such. Too many entrepreneurs hurt themselves by treating reporters simply as a means to an end.
I wish that I'd had a similar experience. I bought Halmos "Linear Algebra Problem Book" based on the accolades, but the lack of motivation/inspiration caught me offguard and left me sorely disappointed before the end of chapter 1. If you can appreciate maths without pictures, you have to be either truly gifted or totally deluded.

Recently, learning to do Principal Components Analysis to solve a handwriting recognition problem is what finally shed an enchanted light on linear algebra. The way that a simple matrix of data samples is transformed into an ordered set of principle components (eigenvectors, ordered by eigenvalue) is.. "unreasonably effective" (as they say). The principal components are your signal, and the rest (with eigenvalues ~0) are the noise. the handwriting recognition, btw, works fantastic for my simple application. no need for non-linear kernels and whatnot.
The tutorials do assume you know basic coding already, and the tutorials do quite a bit of hand holding to ratchet up the exposure to Objective-C, so it really shouldn't be scary.

As someone who thought Objective-C was a terrible language with weird syntax at first, I'd have to say that 1) Verbosity shouldn't be mixed up with complexity, 2) You get used to the different syntax in a couple of days, and 3) Objective-C code is really readable once you get used to the syntax, in the sense that you never have to guess at a method's parameters.
Where is the guy with the comment about generics? Disappointing.
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It's been a while, but eigenvectors/values can also be understood in the context of forming an orthonormal basis via the SVD.
You possess the zeal and subtlety of a young revolutionary.